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PEOPLE of GREAT LETTER 111. " JUSTICE -JUSTICE FOR IRELAND." " Would that mine enemy would write— a letter." • It is o ne o f the most sacred of my duties to ara expose to the honest and reflectinf , pco le o G Britain the gigan- tic and multitudinous ' abuse ' s of f the reat Irish Chu rc h Esta blishment. I have done this sometimes by taking the entire in one v " . — by pointin g out the contrast between the small num ber of Protestants belongin g to that Establishment, and the • Multitude of Catholics and Presbyterians who are com pelled to contribute to its gorgeous and bloated wealth Without deriving any benefit from them. I showed that the Church Protestants were less than seven hundred thou sand in number, and the Catholics, Presbyterians, and other Dissenter s near seven millions and a half. In parti cular, I. more than once pointed out that the Catholics alone were about six millions and a half—whilst all the Protestants, of all sects and persuasions, were not more than fifteen hundred thousand : thus, after deducting from the Catholics man for man for all the Protestants, there remain s a clear balance of Catholics to no less an amount than five millions !! and I have then submitted—respect fully submitted —to the good sense and good feeling of the jrational people of Great Britain, whether they would not oin us in insisting that so enormous a nuisance should be abated, and so useless as well as insulting an injustice ter minated ? At other times I have endeavoured to attract attention to some one fact taken from amidst a multitude. My struggle then has been to concentrate the public mind upon some one flagrant instance of individual injustice —to make Palpable the iniquity of the system by showing its atrocious spoliation of individual property, and by confining attention t o a singl e point, to enable each person to form a judgment, at one view, of the vicious working of an Establishment which displays such gross violation of every principle of common sense and common honesty. These were the motives which induced me to state to the British people my own case—my personal grievance. I stat e d t h at case as contained in the following proposi tions, which I now put in numerical order, for a reason which will soon be perfectly apparent to every reader of this letter. These arc the propositions which constituted "my own case." I asserted them thus : I asserted— First —That the population of the parish in which my country residence is situated, called Kilcrohane, extends in length seventeen miles, in breadth from three to four. Second —That there are 10,154 inhabitants of the parish, of whom 9,990 are Catholics, and only 164 Protestants. Third —That of these Protestants, eighty-seven are coast guards and police, and their families persons casually and Only temporarily in the parish. The regular Protestant parishioners being only seventy•seven. Fourth —That the Rev. Mr. Longfield was rector of this Parish for the last ten or twelve years, and I believed he was not as many days in the p ar i s h. Fifth —That h e never did me any service whatsoever. Sixth—ghat he once left his usual residence (which I stated thus, at Bath or Ch e l tenham), and came to Kerry to an election, for the purpose of voting against me. Seventh —That the composition for tithes out of the pa rish amount s to 5001., or thereab ou t s . It w ill b e we ll to recolle c t t h e very wors. Eighth—That there are two parishes, according to the Catholic division, in Kil cro h ane. Ninth —That we, the Catholics, suppert cheerfully the Catholic clergymen of both parishes. Tenth —That I, as a Catholic, have had to support my ovvn clergyman, to build my own church, and to keep it in repair. Eleventh —That the parish is poor, and therefore the principal part of th ese burdens falls upon mo individually. hi Twelfth —That thi s parson insists, that in addition I shall Pay m 50. T hat year f or t i thes, and because I deem that highly unju s t— Thirteenth —He files a bill against me, and hands me over to a voracious attorney to mulct me in heavy costs. Fourteenth —That he alleges his religion, which stimu lates him to, and sanctions, this gross and palpable injustice, is lie betterve than mine, w hi c h i s j ust what I cannot and do not be . Fifteenth —That he has also three or four glebes in addi tion to his tithe composition. Sixteenth That these tithes were instituted, and these glebes set apart, not by Protestants for Protestants, but by Catholics for Catholic worship. They were ours. We as signed them for our purposes—the purposes of the 9,990 Catholics. Seventeenth—That the force of law, or rather the law of force, had unjustly torn this property from the 9,990 Catholics and given it to the 164, or rather to the seventy seven, Protestants. I called this a • • I ask igantic a multitudinous injustice. you, honest ands conside ' rate Englishmen, whether, upon it istaiernent, I was not right, perfectly right, in so calling ? Can anything under the sun exist more plainly, more Palpably unjust ? L I sh ou ld a dd , i s there, under the sun, i a ny country w here such i n i qu i ty i s pract i sed, save only in net do lat l d .? Nay, so true is this, that even the Pagan Turks Inflict tin any such oppression on the wretched Chris ns within their dominions. Briton s ! there is but one government on the face of the globe which commits such injustice. That is the British ?f government in Ireland. There is but one sect on the face the g l obe which perpetrates such injustice on the be lievers in another tabli s h ed Church in Irel creed—and that i s th e P ro t estant Es and. There are but one people under the heaven compelled to endur e such multiplied iniquity and oppression, and these are ' alas ! the Catholic people of Ireland. Sc T hese facts are calculated to make a deep impression o n e n the reaso na bl e an d reason i ng peop l e of England and ;4tl. The British people, eminent in their love for I. ir Play and j ust i ce, naturally recoil at such exhibitions of ishonesty and cruel spoliation. But, i n order to divert attention from the powerful facts thus stated, this Rev. Mr. Longfield has come forward and hhoepublished a . letter, suav which I will now lay before y ou . Be s• " ine p ityoli!shed s p ec i men o f clerical meekness and Chris "n TO THE EDITOR or THE CORK CONSTITUTION. Of . " SIR —I have seen in your paper a letter to the people England, in which my name is introduced. If it were addressed to the people of Ireland I should not take the trouble of contradicting the false assertions in it, which the ewrientry ter calls facts, as his facts are too well known in this ,• but in this (as I state it) apology for not paying his debt s to me, though, as I could prove, he has paid other clergymen when it was his interest, there is hardly one fact, except, indeed, it may be true that he will not pay me. 8 "AS tO my residirw in Bath or Cheltenham, I never 4 1) 4 1 ' 4 ' a day in either,'but have resided in another parish, officiated without a curate for 38 years, and never 8 2 e ," as much as one month out of it. So much for this irlisciti,ird as to the tithe compoiition in Mr. O'Connell's pa but 25 ei 8 7 500/., it is little more than half that surn, being k nows As to the number of days I spent in the parish, he eh ur ws i nothing ; but when I got the parish there was neither all threee ), clergyman, nor glebe-house in it. Now there are no/ • - As to the glebes, there is one for which I pay mehe or 20 bad acres on which the glebe-house stands—the ra nt bel° nging to the parish being a mountain at the re paid, end of it, of little value ; and if the curate is badly his t '• th e charge comes badly from a man who has not paid tithes these four years. " W I am, Si r , y our o b e di ent servant, `` Ch urch- hill, co un t y o f C ork. " " M. L ONG F IE L D. `Church plainly this l e tt er d enotes " the disposition to be seurrlous without the talent to be severe." But my o bj ect is not to point ou t th e to t a l a b sence o f a ll that court esy which should belong to the class it which °' theis .R ever et ,d (!) person should mix, or the odious image seats ulgar and uncu l t i vated mind which his very style pro tl; N ° ; quite oth erw i se . I eas il y f org i ve him the bm -11-"tY of his ph raseo l ogy, b ecause it will be seen that whilst truthe attempts to con t ra di ct my statement, be in fact and in corroborates and strengthens the case of iniquity and Unjust oppression which I complain of. T . r eall your attention particularly to these points : -tie does not deny my statement of . the extent of the Darib, or of the population of the parish ; the important and is not controverted THAT there are 9,990 Catholics, 1,--114 onl y 77 resident Protestants ; neither does he deny H AT all the tithe composition payable by the 9,990 Ca tholics he disputes to the clergyman of the 77 Protestants, though the amount—how disreputably ,will b e he disputes it seen presently. He does not dare to deny THAT he f ll4B thre e or four glebes, though he prevaricates upon that r , °in ,t• He does not deny THAT he has not been ten days Zent„" th e Parish durino• ten years ; nay, he confirms that state • He does not deny my allegation THAT he never did .' e env servic e of any kind. He does not deny THAT he u.,,nee left his usual residence to come to th e c ounty of Aer • 4t Derr „:11in which this parish is situate, to vote against . me election, though he equivocates upon this 1: does Slot deny THAT there are two parishes accord point. s ,.g to the Catholic division, and that the Catholics 4ZrurePpo_rt their own clergymen for LbPse two parishes. 12fl.ndoes 710 t deny THAT the parish Laing poor, the ;:, eiP_al burde n of supporting a Catholic elqvgymaa, i ii s of building and keeping in repair a Catholic church, demands°lt me, He does not deny THAT lie, in addition, 7._ . _ of me 50/. a year for him who never did me any ?a ,7 1 0 ;sand who came A journey expressly to injure me. does not deny THAT, t 6 enforce this most unchristian aver demand, be has filed a bill agal • •and handed the against ,nf. ; to a voracious attorney to mulct me in lip,iYY costs. rii ... e , edsoe: not venture to deny THAT these tithes and these _' e ere instituted and set apart by Catholics for Ca- utnt wrsliip, and forcibly seized upon by a few Pro- Total, just I said 5001., or thereabouts, fm• the parish ; I should have said for the benefice ; and on account of this most im material mistake he is pleased—he who attempted to do me an injury, and who admits he never did me any service— he is, I say, pleased to use the foulest language his very un polished vocabulary could afford. Really this is too bad, that this man should rob me by law, and abuse me by letter ; and all for what ? Simply because I understated my own case ; for, mark this, I com plained that I, a Catholic, was called upon and harassed by law for one-tenth of the tithes of his parish. What is the reply of this meek preacher of the world ? He says, it is false, for he requires me to pay one fifth ; that is, a doubly higher proportion than I had complained of. The second error which he detects is this :—I said his usual residence was at " Bath or Cheltenham." The very phrase showed that I did not know with certainty where he resided ; but this I know, that he never resided on his bene fice in Kerry. What is his courteous reply ? Why he says it is false, I do not reside in England, I reside upon another benefice in another county. The other benefice is seventy or eighty miles from my house—l had never heard of it—but mark, I pray, this consequence. I had accused him of being a non-resident incumbent taking the emoluments and never residing or thinking of re , siding in my parish. What is his defence ? Does he deny that he is a non-resident or absentee rector? No such thing. He actually boasts of it. My accusation was, that he was an absentee from his pa rish. His defence is, that he is not only an absentee, but, moreover, a pluralist—a bloated pluralist —as I shall pre sently show. Why, I now appeal to every man of common sense whether the grievances I have stated are not enormously increased by the allegations of his uncivil letter ? By the one, he doubles my proportion of the tithes he demands, without giving, or pretending to give me, any kind of value, spiritual or temporal. By the second, be aggravates his offence as an absentee rector, by showing that he moreover participates and rejoices in the grossest abuse known in any Church— namely, that be is a pluralist. " Oh, shame, where is thy blush ?" But I have not as yet done with him. His coarse in civility has stimulated me to inquire more about him, and that inquiry enables me to portray him as a living instance of all the enormous corruptions and profligacy of the law established Church in Ireland. This is another example of the extent of the abuses of the Established Church in Ireland. This is another fact to establish in the mind of every reflecting man the injustice of the Established Church in Ireland. Mark, I pray you, the history of this other " cure of souls" of which this polite pluralist boasts. Read another specimen of that system which shakes the security of the State to the centre, and deluges the green fields of Ireland with blood. My rector and persecutor in word and law—the Rev. ' Mounteford Longford--is, as appears by Parliamentary papers, incumbent of the parish of Desertserges, in the county of Cork, distant at least sixty miles from his benefice of Kilcrohane, in the county of Kerry. He has been incumbent of Desertserges for now close upon forty years. What have been his apostolic labours, and what have been his unapostolic rewards during that period ? Reader, you shall hear ; and it is indeed a tale worth the telling, and worth being listened to. Desertserges, then, is a parish containing no less than 6,520 inhabitants. But of these 6,098 are Catholics. The Protestants are only 432. Thus his flock, supposing all the Protestants to belong to it, consists of no less than one-fifteenth of the entire popu lation of the parish !! ! But there is another fact or two interesting ;—the first is, that— In 1831, there were 474 Protestants in his parish ; in 1834, the census of which year is the latest, these Protes tants diminished to 432. That is, under his apostolic care, in three years, his pastoral labours reduced his flock ten per cent. It is plain, that if he lives much longer he will be at a loss for a Protestant—as so many of his order are— to act as parish clerk. Indeed, judging of iiimWhis letter, one is not surprised that well-disposed Protestants should shun all association with him. The second fact is another proof of the worth of his labours and of the repugnance to associate with him. It is this :—The average attendance at his church is but 80 ; that is, out of the 432 Protestants, only 80 go to the church, leaving 352 who pray for themselves, or have some dis senting clergyman to pray for them. It should be remarked, that all these details are taken from Parliamentary documents. Another of these documents shows what little attention he pays to the education of his parishioners. It appears that there are four schools in the parish of Desertserges— two Catholic and two Protestant ; one of the latter being a Sunday school only. To the support of the Catholic schools it would be too ranch to expect him to subscribe ; but, it will be said, he surely contributes to that of the Pro testant schools. Not he, indeed, if we are to believe the parliam - entary return—and there can be no reason to doubt it. By that return it appears, under head " Parochial School," this return " kept by Ralph Peyton." Under the head "Sources of Support," the return is " Annual sub scriptions from Captain Poole, of 141." There it is—not one penny from the Rev. Mr. Longfield. We next come to the other Protestant school ; under head " Sunday School." The return is " kept by Ralph Peyton?' Under head " Sources cf support,' the return is, " Expenses defrayed ENTIRELY by Captain Poole." Thus, neither on week-day school nor on Sunday school does this meek parson bestow one shilling. The duty of instruction is deserted by the clergyman, and left to the soldier. There is a parson to boast that he is a resident— not an absentee ! But how much is the parish, I want to know, the better of his residence ? NoW that we have seen what his pastoral labours are—a decreasing flock, a small number of hearers, a total neglect of education—let us see what his un-apostolic remuneration is for his eighty church-attending Protestants. Englishmen, it is this :—ln tithe composition 7301. per annum ; in glebe, 1 lBf acres of prime land, with a house, garden, and curtilage. It is indeed a low estimate to rate these at 230/. a year, making together 9601. per annum. Nine hundred and sixty pounds per annum for praying for 80 persons each Sunday ; whilst the 6,098 Catholics are obliged to pay these tithes, and support their own clergy ! See now, in point of common sense and ordinary umrri tated feeling, this injustice is aggravated by the fact which all these Catholics know, that this glebe was set out, and these tithes assigned, fbr Catholic worship and Catholic purposes of charity.—But let that pass. Then there ate 80 church-attending Protestants, for whom this parson receives 9601. a year—that is, the spiri tuals of these Protestants cost exactly 12/. a head by tl.e year. Verily, they are very dear Protestants! But the Rev. Mr. Longfield has been about 40 years in cumbent of Desertserges—he consequently has received, in the aggregate, for his 80 hearers no less than the enor mous CHO of 38,400/. Yes—THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED pounds sterling pouched by one parson having only EIGHTY hearers!! All this money received by a man who does no good, and is exceedingly uncivil into the bargain, Oh ! how I thank him for having written his incautious letter. It has enabled me to bring before the British people another specimen, and in the person of the same individual, of the indescribable enormity of the Irish Law Church. And now, in sober sadness, I ask, is there such an op pression under the sun ? Is there, from the Tartar wall in China the bank s o f t h e O ronoko, and back again, such an injustice as this?-38,4001. received by one m an f rom one class of religionists to whom he does no good, for praying far 80 of another c l ass o f re li g i on i sts w h o seem to have no great rlisb for hi s prayers. Could it be possible that such an iniquity sho u ld ex i st save only in Ireland ? yet there is more. The parliamentary returns prove to me that there is more. I know so little about my rec tor thought he bad the union of Kil cro h ano on l y iibol that I or twelve ttenl,oo.rs, I now find he has had that bandeo sino 180p 7 just twenty-seven years, Mark, then, Nader ? these tbiegs, lie was in cumbent of Desertserges tor reoie tin t n Pleven years. lie had for these eleven years 9601. wl.en beh o ld, i n the pa/4.j ep9, another benefice, sixty miles off is bestowed on him, worth on An AYerage 4001. alear. testants, in utter disregard of the just claims of the mul titude of Catholics. In what then has he weakened my statement, or what could have induced him to resort to the language of Bil lingsgate against me ? Why, forsooth, he has detected two errors, which he 'politely calls falsehoods. Now mark, I pray - you, what these errors consist of, and weigh well whether I am not right in saying that his species of contradiction, instead of weakening, does ac tually strengthen the case of injustice which I submitted to the British people. First, he says, that instead qf the tithe composition in my parish being .500/. per annum, it is only 258/. Observe now, I beseech you, that I did not represent the 5004 per annum as the precise amount of the tithe composition of the parish. I added, or thereabouts, show ing that I was speaking in round numbers. He civilly tells me it isfitlse ; the composition of, your parish is only 258/. Mark his equivocation ; I said there were two Catholic parishes in his benefice. Having the weight of a vexatious injustice upon my mind,. I was not attending to minute de tails, which do not change the real nature or essence of the charge. There are, in fact, two Protestant and three Ca tholic parishes in his benefice. The Protestant parishes arc culled Kilcrohane and Templenoe. He has them both in one benefice. The tithe composition of these two pa rishes appears in the Parliamentary returns thus— Kilcrohane Templenoe 244 12 2 Is not a system of this kind enough to drive the Irish people mad ? I ask you, Englishmen, to make the ease your own, and tell me, would you bear it ? I tell you honestly I should despise you if you did—and I respect 3 ou because you would perish to the last man before you er.. dured it. As to the Scotch, they cut the gordian knot with their broad swords ; and I honour the Scotch. Why then, Britons, will you insist that the Irish should suffer these cruel iniquities ? Why will you listen to the peculating Tories, who tell you that all this oppression and injustice is religion and piety ? Can robbery be religion ? and the plunder of the many for the sage of the few bo piety ? One word more, and I have done, as we say in the House. This Rev. Mr. Longticld boasts that lie has built a Aurch and a glebe-house in Kilcrohane parish, there having been none before his time. Poor man ! in Catholic times there were three churches in the parish, also a mo nastery, and at least two cells or chapels of ease. I indeed admit that they were devastated and ruined, as a specimen of reformation before his time. Observe that, although he boasts of the building of the church and glebe-house, he does not venture to say that they cost him one single shilling : neither did they—not one shilling, notwithstanding his boasting. Who paid for them ? I will tell you. Partly the poor Catholics of the pari'sh—l beg pardon, of the benefice, and partly you Englishmen— es, you. For I find in the par liamentary papers, that for the building of the church and house the Rev. Mr. Longfield received as a free gift no less than 750/. from the late Board of First Fruits. Now, let this be attended to : That Board received from Parliament grants amounting to near ONE MILLION ster ling. This money was taken out of the pockets of the Bri tish people, and given by the Tory rulers of the day to build churches and glebe-houses for the most richly endowed church in the world, with the fewest votaries, and sur rounded by the poorest people on the face of the globe— that people differing in religion. What a pity it is, that the atrocious robberies of the To ries are not deliberately dwelt upon, and maturely weighed by the British nation ! If men would but reflect on "the crimes cf the Tories," they would feel so much of indig nation at the monstrous profligacy of that tyrannic, as well as slavish party, as to drive its supporters from every ap proach to authority or power, This is indeed a robbery of the first magnitude. The grants were precisely of the follo►ving sums : For building churches in Ireland .£595,377 For building glebes-houses Total of these two 932,258 See how expensive the vain attempt to Protestantize Ire land has been to the people of Great Britain. Yet these grants are but a small part of the expense to the British people of the Protestant Establishment in Ireland since the Union. The next item to be added is that For Protestant charity-schools.. X1,105,839 For Church Society, to " discountenance vice" 101,991 For Kildare-place Society The above 932.258 Total £2,310,626 Besides the extra expense of a military establishment horse, foot, and artillery —amounting to more than a mil• lion per annum. Thus, men of England--steady, rational, thinking men of England —you have paid, since the Union, for the poor pleasure of making the people of Ireland endure a Church Establishment which does them no good, and is injurious to your strength, your wealth, and your power— First, the above •• £2,310,626 Secondly, extra military expenses, 36 years, at one million per annum ... 36,000,000 Total £38,310 626 how long is this system to last ? Take it in its aggre gate, and was there ever folly and absurdity on so gigantic a scale? and yet all this folly is exceeded by the oppres sion, the irritation, the cruel iniquity of its inflictions on the unhappy people of Ireland. _ _ Viewed in . its masses, the Church Establishment, in, but not of; Ireland, is thus tremendous and terrific. View it in its details, - and five hundred such cases as that of the Rev. Mr. Longfield stare you in the face. His case is one of a family. There are multitudes of the same litter. The abstract runs thus : The Rev. Mr. Longfield has held the parish of Desert serges, in the county of Cork, for forty years, and has re ceived for eighty church-going Protestants the sum of 38,4001. !!! whilst there are 6,000 Catholics in the parish, paying all, and receiving nothing. The same man, twenty-seven years ago, obtains, by the same gross injustice of favouritism, another benefice in the county of Kerry, worth, on an average, for tithes and glebes, 4001. per annum ; thus making the receipts of o ne single useless Protestant clergyman already amount to near 60,000/. But mark, and learn what his own estimate is of the sum necessary for the spiritual wants of the Protestants of the parish of Kilcrohane, in which I reside. In that parish he has employed a curate for the last twenty-two years, the Rev. Mr. Mathews. Being himself an absentee, the entire duty—whatever that be—has been done by this Mr. Mathews. At what salary or stipend ? You can find it in the Parliamentary Return—it is precisely 691. 4s. 73-d. per annum. The sum seems fantastic, but is accounted for thus : an Irish Act of Parliament directed that the stipend, or salary. of any curate should not be less than 7.5/. per annum. That Act, however, was passed before the change in the currency, I mean that from Irish money into English. Now 751. in the Irish money, as it then stood, is exactly 69/. 4s. 74d, in English money. Accordingly the Rev. Mr. Longfield does not add even the half-penny, but keeps his unfortunate curate upon the minimum, 69/. 4s. 7id. a year. He there fore must conceive that sum sufficient to have the religious duties of the Protestants of the Parish performed. Attend, then, to these facts ; see whether it be endurable' that these matters should rest as they are, and do consider whether my proposal is not perfectly just and reasonable. What I propose, then, is just this : I propose that the Rev. Mr. Longfield should be disconnected with Illy hone= fice of Kilcrohane altogether. I would make the Rev, Mr. Mathews' salary 751. a year in English money— I would then double it ; lie should have 150/. per annum. See what a beneficial arrangement this would be which I would make for this Protestant clergyman. There would remain 250/. a year in tithes and glebe out of the benefice of Kilcrohane. Then, as to Desertserges, let the Rev. Mr. Longfield have 260/. a year for his life. This would be infinitely more in proportion than he himself paid his two-and-twenty years' curate. Let him have 260/. This would disengage in Desertserges, in tithes and glebes, 700/. per annum ; add these to the 250/. remaining in Kilcrohane benefice, and you will have 950/. to be appro priated to such purposes as Parliament may direct. Would you tranquillize Ireland follow up this plan ; give the glebes to the value of 300/. per annum to the pastors of the great and overwhelming majority of the people of these parishes. Take the remaining 6501., abate 300/. a year to render the actual burden of the tithes bearable, and you will still have 340/. a year, to be applied to public purposes of education and charity. I have done. I have exposed the Church system in Ireland, wholesale and in detail. I have shown it in every point of view unjust, oppressive, cruelly irritative to the people of Ireland, cruelly burdensome to the people of Great Britain. do, therefore, firmly call for " Justice for Ireland." I have the honour to be, your ever faithful servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. THE GREAT KINGSTON CAVERN.—Roger Gor man, the guide of the great Kingston cavern, has, by his inde fatigable exertions. discovered within the last month another chamber in this phenomenon of natural curiosities, which is equal in length and breadth to many of those previously ex plored. The stalactites of this apartment form many extraor dinary curiosities. Gorman has deferred giving any appella• tion to the new chamber until the next visit made to the cave by some person of distinction, after whom it is his intention to name it. The apartment discovered before the one in ques tion was called " O'Callaghan's Cave," being visited at the time by the Hon. Cornelius O'Callaghan, eldest son of Lord Lis more. Clonmel Advertiser. The Woolcombers of this town have just obtaitted an advance of a farthing per pound upon all sorts of wool, making an increase in their wages of about 2s. per week. The woolcombers, in a communication which they have sent us, say they feel highly gratified, that the advance has beiT given withwit !my !itpugg!ti n!! 144' P 44, 40 in the absence ,if all ill-feeling 4ctweeti Matters and men.—Leicester Paper. A SctENT;F;c TAILOR.-_A tailor lately replied t o a gentleman who complained that hi;:i coat fitted bqdly, ",I beg pard on , Si r , Nit the 'e t a at niust nit,for th e incw.nre's right, and we alwayscuts out on ejornetry principle," Why did he get the second benefice ? How had he deserved it ? In no one way whatever. He had neither said, nor done, nor written, nor practised any one thing to have himself turned into a pluralist, and to have a second and still more unbefitting benefice bestowed on him. But he was the near relation of a lord—and his con- nections were of wealth, station, and influence—and there tore benefices are heaped upon him, and, in addition to 960/. a year in the county of Cork, for which he gives little value, he is gifted with 400/. a year in the county of Kerry, for which he gives no value at all. Thus this one clergyman, without any number that de serve the name of parishioners, has received out of one parish 38,400/.,—and out of another benefice, which he admits he had scarcely ever visited even for a day, 10,8004 —total 49,200/.!!! SPANISH AFFAIRS. (From the Journal des Debats.) It is with deep regret that we see disappear all the hopes we had conceived of the opening of the campaign, when the Queen's troops, keeping the enemy confined to their hauntk appeared only to be awaiting the fine season to penetrate into them. Their cause, which is that of justice and liberty, had our best -wishes, Our hopes have been disappointed, and instead of the - success we so ardently hoped for, it is our painful duty to expose only faults and defeats. The Carlist forces are overrunning the country, and a civil war, with its attendant horrors, is propagating itself in a most dreadful manner; the resources of both country and Government are becoming exhausted ; the Generals dare not take any decisive measures, for a deplorable rivalry ex i 3ts, which renders impossible any general effort ; the troops arc not paid, and often their provisions fail them ; the re cruits, harassed by these useless fatigues, either go over to the Carlists, else return to their home ; the volunteers, in stead of marching against the enemy, say they are betrayed, and massacre the governors, priests, and citizens, suspected of Carlist principles ; in short, the rebellion becomes every day more alarming, and things only go from bad to worse. This was certainly not a picture of the war at the be ginning of the fine season. The insurrection of the Biscayan provinces, then shut in by the Guilinzeoa mountains, and reduced by the blockade to a state of great want, appeared to be consuming itself with inanition, until the moment when it should be attacked by four bodies of the army with simultaneous force and vigour. A hundred and ten thousand men, comprising the garrisons forming the blockade circle, from the valley of Ronuvaux on the frontier of Arragou, to that of Mena on the Castillian frontier. Fifty thousand men, at least, chosen from the best troops in the army could have concurred to-. gether to gain the great result of penetrating into the centre of the Carlist organization, and to carry there a dangerous if not fatal blow. The Spanish army was strengthened by an addition of from 10 to 15,000 recruits from the English and Algerian Legions, as well as a division of Portuguese. General Evans's Legion, after occupying successively St. Sebastian, and Vittoria, was reinstalled at St. Sebastian, which strategic point was assigned as the base for their operations, as it commanded the route to France at the back of the Carlists. The latter, on the arrival of General Evans, were ready to set fire to St. Sebastian, which they kept highly blockaded. The English drove them hence with groat re solution, and supported by the firing of three ships of war, they drove the enemy from the small bay called Port du Passage. They were defeated in an attack upon the road to Ernani, the Carlist General-in-Chief was then Count Casa Eguia, who had placed himself with the greater part of. his forces at that point. We shall not yet mention the Fon tarabia affair. It may be thought that during the first combats in the neighbourhood of St. Sebastian, there might have bar:, some powerful division for the rest of the army, such as Pam peluna against Borunda, the line of AP, against Estella, Vittoria against the chain of Arial:cm pr to.vards Durango. This was not the case t nc ei'en when General Bernelle holding tlre-V-alley4 north=east of Pampeluna and the pas sages of Arragon, was attacked three different times by con siderable forces, no diversion was then made either at Saint Sebastian, Vittoria, or Arga. But during the time that General Evans was reduced to a state of inactivity by the concentration of the Carlist forces at Ernani, General Cordova was proceeding without ob stacle, and by a circuitous route to the crest of Arlaban, which he took without having much trouble in so doing, or in overwhelming the enanty'y entrenchments, which were defended by mall detachments upon, which they fired by form of hattln, This was followed by a bulletin, telling the soldiers that their glory would rise higher than the heights of Arlaban, and by the general's departure for Madrid. This operation, easy as it had been, might have been of much use if carried with albOro resolute hand. The army was but two leagues from Onate, and remained without defence. By an energetic movement they could have entered this little town, destroyed the enemy's magazines, blown up their powder, and nailed up their cannon. A few hours would have sufficed to do all this. They dared not risk it, but hastily retired to Vittoria, to avoid any serious engagement with the Carlists, who were flocking towards the centre from Ernani ; for in this war the Queen's generals appear to be only intent upon not compromising their reputations, by avoiding all combats, the chances of which were not much in their favour. We know not whether General Evans omitted to execute a demon stration upon Ernani, while Cordova occupied Arlaban. The correspondence and the papers from the frontiers were filled with the quarrels of these two journals ; it was said that the auxiliary general pretended to remain master of his own movements, and to co-operate without obeying. If this disagreement was real, nothing could be more fatal. Unity of command is one of the first conditions of war, and Napoleon has said, " Ono bad general is better than two good ones: General Cordova's political journey to Madrid upon the entrance of the Isturiz Ministry, was the subject of uni versal blame in the army. The military affairs were struck with a sudden languor, and each General remained upon the defensive in his respective quarters. Thus were lost 20 days, which the Carlists employed ill preparing for the organization of t wo ex p e diti onary b o di es, w i thout being at all troubled, or the army of the Queen even suspecting their plan, as we shall see. On his return, Gen. Cordova proceeded to Pampeluna, in the useful intention of at length occupy ing the valley of the Bastin, and of completing the blockade. It is to be wished that the Spanish army had occupied the valley of Bastan long before this time, and thus prevented the communication on the frontiers between the Carlists and the smugglers, whose only political thought is that of gain, and whose fraudulent traffic has never been able to he stopped. The occupation of this valley would have put an end to the perpetual exclamations against the tolerance of the French Government, the injustice of which exclamations has been often proved, although the Spaniards never cease to reproduce them, instead of accusing their own negligence in not bett er guar di ng t h e frontier, wltel openly brings resources to th e i r enemies. Cordova was beginning his movement when he received from Vittoria the unexpect e d and ' ' :isassreeable tidings th a t e bea c th.s Carlist General Gomez; at the of 5,000 men, had forced the blockade line towards Balmaceda an d Villeago, ari d tx as invading the Asturias that Espartero was pursu ing him, leaving Vittoria under guard of the Portuguese, and at the §4410 time that the Carlist forces were surround ing Vittoria, and besieging Trevino and Penaurrada at the south of this town ; that the plan of the campaign was completely deranged, that the Carlists were overrunning the cantonments, and the Generals knew not in what way to act ; and -that if he did not immediately return the forces he had taken to Bastan, the consequences were in conceivable. Cordova returned on the Ebro to Haro and Miranda ; the besieged places wort) not taken, but Gomez had not yet been joined ; butt had continued his march to Oviedo after b@Atinu two brigades of the reserved army, who barred his passage at Revilla, and that he was always twenty-four hours in advance of Espartero, who was himself pursued by a Carlist column. At the first news of Gomez's march, the bulletins statod that every measure had been taken to defeat an attempt on the Asturias. Now, Gomez has been able to enter the capital of this province, raise a heavy tax, continue his route to Galicia, across a country cut by large rivers, which he crossed on bridges, of which no one dis puted the passage. At the very moment that General Cordova was returning by forced marchdupon the Ebro, General Evans was at tempting to signalize himself by a coup de main upon Fon tarabia, an old dismantled fortress on the mouth of the llidzissoit, and the possession of which would have made him master of the small town of lrun, on the road to France. 'Flie attack was protected by steamers and gun-boats, and between five thousand and six thousand men were taken out ; three hundred Carlists defended the dilapidated ram parts of the citadel ; it must be taken by assault, and the old ruins facilitated such a plan. The French side of the Bidassoa was covered with a crowd of spectators, attracted by the warlike preparations, and was chiefly composed of unfortunate Spanish emigrants, whose homes were invaded by the enemy. The multitude were making vows in favour of the English, when, to the general disappointment, this mass of six thousand men retreated without attempting the assault er anything else, and .pursued by the firing of the Carlists until the 3 entered St. Sebastian. The frontier correspondents have not been sparing in their reproaches to the English division for this shameful retreat. But in justice to General Evans we must mention the appearance of several Carlist battalions in the rear of the English, which might have led him to believe that stronger forces were coming from Ernani, in order to cut him off from St. Sebastian. However just may be the blame thrown upon the soldiers of the auxiliary legion, it can in no manner at tack British honour ; and the raisers of recruits in London are alone to be accused for the little scruple they make in the choice of their recruits. Vie learn that in Navarre each General is operating upon his own account, without any idea of general union having a chance of success ; the only advantage they have gained over the Carlists since the opening of the campaign consists-in having got them about a gun-shot distance from St. Sebastian. (Prom the Gazette de France.) Desertion continues from the ranks sof tha Queen's troops. On the 10th instant, 160 de;iirters, with their arms and baggage, presented themselves at the Carlist heal-quarters liaiinas. On the 16th, seven English lancers and two Spanish soldiers, also with tlivh' 41 1 / 1 4 . 4 ‘ 1 4 b a ggage, came mer to the Royal quarters ; Eleven Englishmen, in the most deplorable cgmlitieak artiveti at Bayonne on the 18th. It is 1401104 that oellol4l Bernell° has resigned his com mand, General 00111e1 has found twelve guns and consi- Ora* magazines 9f arms 4 0 m unun ition at Oviedo. The Quotidientw says that the Spanish Alitiistry has been completely defeated in the Barcelona, Saragossa, and Pam plona elections. The same print is positively certain that the battalion of the Foreign Legion, quartered at Pan, 700 strong, is about to receive orders to enter Spain. The battalion is probably but the vanguard of a more considerable force about to be supplied to the Queen by the French Government. The Phare of Bayonne states, that the Carlist bands, though beaten in Catalo n i a , show themselves at al mos t every point. The following letter has been received from an officer in Espartero's army : " Otiddo, July 9; " We have not interrupted °tit thatch since tve left Vie.. toria. We have had a had time ;ind have not tak e n off our clothes lot roUricieti d #B. We hope, however, to be able to (10 - $0 :this night. Now that I hai , e a few in stunts, I sit down to give you an account of what hag oc curred to us. " It is known that a column of five battalions and 200 cavalry belonging to the faction, marched for the Asturias. General Espartero proceeded in pursuit of it:with his divi sion. It was thought that General Tello, being with Ili a troops in the proximity of the road by which the rebels h:„ ( 1 to pass, would be able to detain them until our arrival, .which unfortunately did not take place, for the enemy forced the passage with.. the losS to us of 800 prisoners, whilst the factions were emboldened by their success, and obtained an advance upon us of three days' march. Well aware of the importance of accelerating their march, they made no delay, and did not wait for us, as we ex pected they would, at the pass of the bridge at Tarna, either because they were not aware of our approach, or because they would not make any unnecessary halt. I am, however, inclined for the first reason. We had been led to believe, that at this same pass there were troops ready to oppose our passage, but it was not so. As soap a* they had entered the Asturias they marched on this city . without delay. The troops of the Queen bad left it, as they considered they were not in force to defend it, and had retired with the authorities to Gijon. It is pro bable that they would have made a defence had they known that General Espartero, with his division, was in pursuit of the enemy. The smallest garrison was sufficient to hold out a couple of days, and give us time to come up. They entered Oviedo without meeting with any opposition, and were well received by the deluded, but were still ignorant of the.approach of Espartero, who had arrived the sanae day at Infiesto, seven leagues from this. The Cieneral sent from thence an order to the authorities of the place for 2,000 rations, with the double obic!",:i that the enemy might be aware of our proximity, and that it might be as certained if he were incli T i 7.e;.1 . to wait for us. " h t . f act °as- ...eneved the dem an d o f ra ti ons to b e a fabrication.fabric. , 4. .'tn. they supposed that Espartero had not passed Villarcaro ; but when they learnt yesterday, at half past twelve, that we were at Pola de Siero, two leagues from this, they marched out at two o'clock, by the road of Graces, with considerable precipitation, and proceeded that night seven leagues. Up to this moment everything has been fa vourable to them ; they have forced the pass of a bridge defended by a chosen body of men, principally Nation a l Guards, and th ey ma d e 2 00 prisoners. They had ex pectations of being joined by a great number in a short and certainly their expectations were not unfounded, since it is asserted that yesterday, by two o'clock, 6,000 men were to have been assembled at Pola de Siero, and in four days the number was to be augmented to 12,000. - " This morning we entered at six o'clock, and at seven General Manso, Captain General of Old Castile, came in, with a small force. A considerable number of the ex- Royalist Volunteers have marched with the rebels. It ap pears that they had retained their arms and their uniforms, notwithstanding the perquisitions of the police. The divi sion of Espartero is composed of three brigades , th e fi rs t commanded by Colonel Cordov a , i s compose d of three bat. talions, the second under the command of Colonel de Almansa, is also composed of three battalions ; and the third brigade, which has remained at.Soncello, in the neigh bourhood of Villarcayo, is also composed of three battalions, and is commanded by the Brigadier General Solcedo. Two squadrons of IluSiars fOrm part of Espartero's marching division ; but he has not taken from Oviedo more than four battalions, or five at the utmost. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. When we first heard that Ecclesiastical Reform was to be entrusted to the Bishops, we anticipated all that has taken place. We suspected that the heads of the Church would deal as tenderly % 411 themselves a ls Sancho Patna did with his }:kin in the matter of %el, lation. • The Report& of the Cemmist,imr6, and tho Bills founded on them, are precisely what a know:ctige of the parties ttitlit Us to eXpetts The greatest Want of the people tif England iit the eyes of these rderinerP, the ihoftieitnty of the number of bishops, The people themselves generally cone*Cd that the first thing in the Church which rVoll'ired attention, was the iti;idequate Provision f9r a large proportion a the dergy• 'Thy' firq 1 1 ' ; :og that the bishop; recommended was a Intinifiv.7-ot Bettlement for themselves. When all the - f~liiscopal tables are well ptovided for, a few crumbs may be thrown to the poor labourers iit the vineyard. But there is no haste respecting them. That the people are dissatisfied with the episcopal scheme of reform, and consider it little better than a mockery, can surprise no one. In truth, a very different measure of reform must be proposed to satisfy the nation ; and no person in his senses cars suppose that the scheme recommended by the Coins missioners will be suffered to he final. Our disappoint ment, however, ought not to blind us to an advantage which must result from the measure—the admission of the Heads of the Church that 'Parliament Is justified - in interfering with the distribution of its revenues. At one time the language used to be that she estates of private individuals were not more their own than the property of the Church was its own, and that the rule of non-interferenc e was equally applicable to both. No reflecting politician, it is true, ever doubted the right of the State to consider the property of the (church in any other light than other public property ; but we are now speaking of the doctrines advanced by the Church party.- Our readers must have seen from our account of what took place on Friday at the Fo reign-office, that Ministers do not consider themselves at liberty to abandon one at least of. the Bills now before Parliament—the 'Established Church Bill. Our own (pinion of that and the other Bills has been expressed with sufficient clearness. We share the general disappointment. But still we are not prepared to say that the Reformers should incur the responsi bility of pushing their opposition to an extremity which might break up the Government. A division in the ranks of the Reformers at this time, with the Tories united and ready to turn that division to account, would unquestionably be a great evil. Agreeing with Mr. Hume in his objections to the meatures of eccle siastical reform, which are by no means what the ..people were' justified in expecting, we would yet intreat him to refrain from taking any step which might weaken the Liberal party. By dividing against the Establi s h e d Ch urc h Bill h e will b place a number of -Liberal Members in the difficult po sition of either injuring a Government which they wish to support, or voting in favour of a measure which is known to be unpalatable to many of their constituents. On the whole, it will, we think, be advisable that Members should bear with their disappointment for the present, trusting that the tims may soon be more favourable for a reform of the Church really deserving of the nam e . Wh et h er any additional bishops were required is at least very doubt ful ; but however that may be, we certainly could have wished that they should have been really bishops, and not spiritual barons. Who has not heard of the entreaty of that truly primitive Bishop (Wilson) of Sodor and Man, to be freed from the yoke of secu larity imposed on bishops, by uniting with their spiri tual duties those of Peers of Parliament. Had the Bislthps of Manchester and Ripon been freed from the burden of attendance in Parliament, the country would have been much gratified. If we cannot get rid of our present spiritual barons, we ought at all events to have no addition to them. We are here but echoing the sentiments of many of the most venerated names in the Church of England.—Morning Chronicle. The dissolution of Parliament has been talked of— its prorogation has been threatened —.vet, after all, it appears that the dissolution of the ill-assorted Go vernment, and the prorogation of their preposterous policy, is all which is really to be apprehended. To us, who have all along considered the existing coali tion between the Whigs and Radicals as the most dis graceful that ever aegiaded the annals of political war fare in Englarsi, • it must be satisfactory to know that our anticksations have been entirely fulfilled. Yet it mnst-te conceded that this satisfaction is tempered by Os sense that we, and those who think with us, have to lament the departure from those constitutional principles which have so long preserved the govern ment of these kingdoms, and which have been fear fully violated by an Administration anxious only to preserve the power and emoluments of place. The indisputable political fact of the past week, and that which must influence the Parliamentary proceed ings of the ensuing week, is, that the Radical sup porters in the English Parliament of the Irish Mini s t r y have rebelled against that exclusion from the profits or place, after. which they have been so long hungering and thirsting. This point, so essentially important, we are anxious to impress upon the attention of our readers, for, in fact, it involves the whole principle of that political conflict which now agitates the public The case clearly and indisputably stands thus: --LTwo parties naturally opposed to each other—the one consisting of the haughtiest portion of our neediest Aristocracy—the other composed of the most ravenous Members of the Radical Representatives—have com bined for the sordid purpose of advancing merely per sonal interests, at the expense of all national considera tions. They have quarrelled ; and how should it be otherwise ? Never yet, in the history of political or of - private life, has an association based on perfidy been productive of general or of individual good. That bad men may combine for flagitious purposes is true ; but that even this degrading com bination should be neutralized by mutual distrust, was reserved for the unholy alliance of the Whigs anti Radicals, when forming an anti-English faction. Ti n e very proverb of " Honour among thieves," has } seen violated by this voracious party. And let not the public believe that the hollow peace which, is repre sented to have been made between the quailing aristo crats, and the discontented leaders of the democratic power, can be of any long continuance. It is pc,. fectly clear that this house divided against itself must fall, whether the preponderance olf po‘ergn,t is biaeonit i e one side or the other. To the people of E v n un doubtedly a question of vast importance, which of the two sections of this preposterous combination is likely to be in the ascendant. But, on whishever side this power falls, it must be for the national interests. We unhesitatingly declare that the more innninent danger would be in the ascendancy of that factious body headed by O'Connell, and supported by the Radicals of Eng land. Yet must we distinctly state, that the insidious policy of a degraded, a selfish, and we are sorry to say, a sordid aristocracy, would, though not so imme diately appalling, be eventually far more fatal to the destinies of a constitutional monarchy like our own. It then remains for us to consider how the diSunion be tween these two dangerous parties can Its rendered most available for the interests of the empire at large. And here the Conservatives have trot only a great oppor tunity, but we must mus.,l impress upon them that they have an imperat;.v e duty, to which their patriotic attention should that we feel Compelled instantly devoted. It is with pain tompelled to remind that large and power ful body , b of English gentlemen forming the Opposition to ts,," present disjointed Government, of the absolut e necessity of energetic co-operation at a moment so pregnant with results as the present. At all times we should be slow to offer any . observation which might appear to carry censure against those to whose sup. port the Conservative portion of the community must of necessity be indebted for active exertion. Yet we may be pardoned when reminding Hon. Members that at this period of the Parliamentary session, and under the peculiar circumstances now influencing the political world, we state with no more of decision than is imperatively forced upon us by the exigencies of the moment, that the forbearance, we had almost said the - firta/ forbearance, which has enabled the present stern to maintain their position can no longer be justified Surely it is not to be endured that the last reproach of the Whigs and Radicals should be borne out by the conduct of the Conservatives—namely, that the very advantages falling in their way should be sacrificeck by SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, Fitri mr . The Stanley Stakes of 25 sous. each, h. ft., with 30 added ; for two yrs old, 6st. 81b. ; three, Bst. 101 b. 'r. Y. C. 5 Subs. Mr. Mostyn's ch. c. Bangalore, 2 yrs. Sir J. Boswell's Calendar, 2 yrs 2 Lord Westminster's Sarcasm, 3 yrs The Stand Cup or Piece of Plate, value 100 sovs., added to a Subscription of 10 sovs. each, h. ft. Two miles. Sir J. Boswell's General Chasse, 5 yrs 1 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Mundig, 4 yrs Sir J. Boswell's B e ll a , 4 yrs ...... 3 BECCLES RACES. A Handicap Stakes of 25 sovs. each. Heats, once round. 3 Subs, Mr. Pcirson's Tristram, aged, 9st. 21b ... 3 1 1 Mr. Peirson's Dwarf, aged, Bst Mr. Gilbert's Grapeshot, aged, Bst 2 $ 2 A Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with a Durso added. Mr. Smith's Woodpecker, aged, 9st. 71b... 1 1 Mr. Pcirsin's Dwarf, aged, 6st. 71b Mr. Law's Mr. Snooks, aged, Bst 3 dr STAMFORD RACES, FRIDI Y. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs, each, with a Purse added ; three yr., old, lOst. ; four, I Ist. ; five, I Ist. lllb ; six and aged, l'st. 21b. Heats, once round and a distance. 4 Subs. Mr. Green's Jack Stra.v Mr. Greer 2 1 1 Mr. Sprigg's ch. g. by Wallack, 4 yrs ... I 2 2 Mr. Wright's Creeper, 5 yrs ...... The Noblemen an d G ent l emen ' s Plate ' o f 50/. thrs old, Gst. 1210 ; four, Bst. 71b ; five, 9st. 31'1, ; six, 9st. ; 81b ; ree y aged, 9st. 101 b. Heats, twice roun d . Mr. Bird's b. e. by S ' ' ;andbeck, 4 yrs... ...... Conolly 1 1 Mr. Smith's 6 yrs 2 2 GOODWOOD RACES. T l '..e following horses have either arrived or are on the road : A.scot, Bamfylde, Knobstick, Louisa, Ringlet, Roadster, Taglioni, Oberon, Morpeth, Fair Jane, Lucifer, Whin - Bic:A, llorusea, Bran, Selinus, Venison, Adonate, Felix, Jacob Faithful, Ruinous, Tiber, Alfred, Lady Anne, Flush and Fortune fillies, Toss up, Arbaces, Elizondo, Sepoy, Neva colt, Esmeralda, Royal George, Idiot, Skir misher, Ethilda, Babel colt, Candia, Marmora colt, Toga, Chad lington, Defender, brother to Hester, Elis, Emmeliana colt, Rock ingham, Foozool, The Drummer, Chateau d'Espagne, Tauntonian, Partner, &c. EGIIAM RACES. Acceptances for the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes :—Rocking ham, 6 yrs, 9st. 101 b; Hornsea, 4 yrs, Bst. 131 b. ; Ailaderbv, 4 yrs, Bst. 61b ; Knobstick, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b ; Paris, 5 yrs, Bst. ; Valentis simo, 4 yrs, Bst ; Pussy, 5 yrs, 7st. 121 b; Oak Apple, 4 yrs, 7st. 81b ; Aristocrat, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b ; Perrot, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b; Hevealer, aged, 7st. 61b.: Jacob Faithful, 3 yrs, 7st. 61b. ; Babel colt, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b ; and Partner, 2 yrs, 6st. 71b. Lord Henry Seymour having betted Major Frazer 4,0001. that a four-wheeled carriage, drawn by two horses, might be driven from Paris to Angers, a distance of 73 leagues and a half, or 177 miles, in 72 hours, Mr. Henry Zilges undertook to drive the carriage, and performed the distance in 66 hours. AQUATICS. On Wednesday evening another boat race between the lower six and the next eight (Collegians) came off on the river. The boats to start from the Broca', go round the rushes at Boveney, and back to Windsor Bridge. The six oar, the Thetis, h ea d e d b y B oscawen, an d the Britannia by Miles. This was the end of the season. The six-oar had the advantage at starting, but the boats kept much upon the level to the crossing above Clump, when they came in contact with each other, and, side by side, entangled, and each strugg ling for the mastership, they pulled to Lower Hope, where at the corner the Thetis ran aground, with the Britannia wedged inside ; a little management would now have got the Britan nia the lead, but she missed the opportunity and it was taken by the Thetis, who took the turn, with the other bearing upon her rudder ; she now moved in advance, and the Britannia was unable again to touch her ; at the rushes she was twenty yards a-head, and i n th e way h ome considerably increased the dis tance, making the termination somewhat easy. CRICKETING. BRIGHTON, JULY 24.—This morning (Monday) the grandest match of the season will be commenced at Lord's Ground, Marylebonc, between eleven players and eighteen gentlemen. We believe the following is a correct list of the players, in which will be recognised such a concentration of cricketting ability as was never before witnessed Pilch, Redgate, Wen_ man, Marsden, Jervis, Lillywhite, Cobbett, Box, Hillyer, Mills, and Barker. Kent play with Sussex the Bth of August, on Pileh's ground. This will, without doubt, be a most interesting game. The annual grand cricket matches between the gentlemen of Winchester, Eton, and Harrow schools will commence on Wednesday at Lords, and terminate either on Friday or Sa turday. The first match will be Winchester against Harrow, the next Eton against !Jarrow, and the third Eton against Winchester. A number of distinguished fashionables of both sexes arc expected on the ground to witness these interesting contests. - - DEATH OF SIR ROBERT 1 4ISTJN.--II is with cere re g ret that that we announ ce t h e death of Robert Liston, I3art. , K. G., C. 8., which took I )l4 e° at his seat of Millburn-lower, near Edinburgh, on ti l e Right Hon. Baronet died full r Bch current. The t'• ye' 4 7s as of honours, being at the period of his decease h of his Sir Robert 9 4 . t year Robert Listou was on his Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Connell, aria • :vas the father of the diplomatic body, it is beieved. vas Europe. It is little more than ten . ear s ' ;trice Sir Robert retired from public life, the last ap pointment which he held having been that of his Majesty's re- Presentative at the Court of the Ottoman Porte. The last years of a life so distinguished, and so protracted, were in every Way worthy of its brightest periods. With an entire freedom from ostentation, and in the enjoyment of universal esteem, Sir Robert was distinguished by the uniform urbanity of his deportment, by activity in the promotion of every good work, and by an enlightened regard for the interests of the poor in his neighbourhood, who will long deplore his loss. Sir Robert had the misfortune to lose Lady Liston about six years ago, and leaves 09 issue. —Caledonian Mercury. _A SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1836.